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Dinosaur Month in Pohutukawa Room
Our learning focus in the Pohutukawa room has been on dinosaurs as tamariki have shown considerable interest in this area. We deepend this interest by creating an interactive, multi-faceted learning environment.
This included organising a range of learning opportunities for tamariki to explore and engage in activities like puzzles, art & craft, sensory play, frozen dinosaur eggs, and a 'Free your Dinosaur' where tamariki can use scissors to help free the dinosaurs from all the tangle of tape and string and then trying to release them from the rubber bands.
These experiences provided both individual and group opportunities for exploration, fostering cooperation and communication. The confidence with dancing and singing of our tamariki increased through lots of repetition as they stomped away expressing their strength, rhythm and knowledge of counting.
Through whanau engagement, we had a dinosaur breakfast where we made dinosaur fairy bread and ate like a dinosaur those that were herbivores ate fruit salad, those who were carnivores ate meat patties and our omnivore dinosaur ate everything. The new dinosaur enclosure that consisted of many dinosaurs, rocks, driftwood for our tamariki to sit and hang out with their whanau during drop-off and pick-up times were beautiful moments to observe.